Parakeet Training Record

Train your parakeet the scientific way!

In the 60's, science had an answer for everything, and vinyl did much more than just supply you with the latest pop tunes. For a mere 98 cents, this 45rpm disc from Hartz Mountain claimed to be able to teach your parakeet to talk using a "scientific new method". The idea, it would seem, was to place your bird near the record player while a "carefully trained voice" recited over and over again a series of banal phrases. "Hello, baby", says the voice. "Hello, baby".

Whether this worked or not is anyone's guess (put me down for No), but judging from the wear on this particular disc, it would appear that somebody gave it a shot. It's actually hard to imagine how much easier using this record might have been compared to the "old fashioned" method it replaced. Considering that each side of the thing is only about 3 minutes long, a dedicated parakeet owner would have had to do an awful lot of record-flipping to generate any appreciable amount of listening time. Weigh that against the disadvantage to having your parakeet learn only those phrases carefully selected by the Hartz Mountain engineers, and -- wait, I keep forgetting. This was the 60's, and these are consumers we're talking about.

It's too bad that the parakeet training concept seems to have been a passing phenomenon. With today's multi-gigabyte MP3 players able to hold hours of sound, it might actually have a chance. Hello, baaaaaby...

jonathan
says:
this site sucks my bird is still very dumbpeanut head is also like this sight. It's dumb as a rock
(07-29-2004)

jonathan
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this site sucks my bird is still very dumbpeanut head is also like this sight. It's dumb as a rock
(07-29-2004)

ogg
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this method doesn't work but it kept my parakeet still for 10 seconds at least beating its previos record by 5 seconds!!!!!!thx dudes!!!!!!!
(07-27-2004)

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yeah that peanut head can sure stir up trouble, geez he's mean to every1 for absoulutely no reason at all!!!!!
(07-27-2004)

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thx web admininstrator, now we'll stop arguing and peanut head will stop blabbing his head off
(07-27-2004)

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frank
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frank
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